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| | Product Details | | Audio CD Release Date: | May 18, 2011 | | Studio: | Silvertone | | Number Of Discs: | 1 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 37 reviews |
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| | Track Listing | | 1. | My Way Down | | 2. | Letter To My Girlfriend | | 3. | C-Butt Rock | | 4. | Just Kissed My Baby | | 5. | Shiloh | | 6. | Scrawl | | 7. | What Can I Do? | | 8. | Big-Legged Woman | | 9. | Borrowed Love | |
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14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Blisterin' Texas Blues Nov 15, 2004
By J. Newberry
The comparsisons to Hendrix and Vaughan abound, but anyone who typecasts Duarte as a simple clone of those two godfathers of acid blues is simply short sighted.
Chris Duarte's first full-length album, *Texas Sugar* is astounding on many levels. Sure, it's hard-rocking blues. However, the funk and jazz influences color nearly all the tracks. Take something like "Big Legged Woman." Certainly, one can hear the blues influences, from the scorching guitar solos to the chordal structure. However, one would have to be tone deaf to miss the scratching, funky rhythm of the song. "Big Legged Woman" shares more in common with Wild Cherry or post-Bitch's Brew Miles than with Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Duarte reminds me of what Jimi Hendrix may have become: a restless experimenter who fuses jazz, funk, rock, blues, and acid rock with a stamp of originality that many, many musicians should envy. His playing is clean, but sometimes hidden behind a wall of effects and distortion. I'd like to hear an acoustic outing from Duarte.
The songs, however, are amazing. I love "My Way Down." It's a blues/rock/funk explosion with a guitar solo that soars above the stratosphere, makes a left at Neptune, and comes back home with alien knowledge of another world.
Buy this album. Also, check out "Tailspin Headwack."
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
MIGHTY FINE PICKIN' Sep 28, 2003
By Baddstuff
"music junkie"
I love this CD. Sure, at times he does sound like Stevie Ray but labeling him an SRV clone is the easy way out. There's some mighty fine guitar pickin' goin' on here. Great Strat sound throughout. Listen to the funky guitar work on Big-legged Woman, so sweet! Other standouts for me are C-Butt Rock, Letter To My Girlfriend and the super My Way Down. Just super guitar pickin'. Kudos to the band as well, especially the drummer for some tasty playing. I recently caught Chris and his new band at BB King's in New York and Chris was smokin'! Check this guy out, I think you'll dig it.
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Impressive Debut From the Texas Guitarslinger Jun 07, 2003
By Steve Vrana
It's impossible to write a review of Chris Duarte without invocking the name of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Duarte, a fellow Texan, is obviously a disciple of the late, great guitarist. In fact, Duarte dedicates the nearly ten-minute instrumental "Shiloh" to Stevie and his brother Jimmie. But while Duarte may have been influenced by the Vaughan brothers, he is no imitator. Duarte's guitar playing is both fiery and inspired. His vocals are serviceable, but it's his guitar playing that brings me back to this album time and again. I caught him live a couple years ago and his performance was dazzling. This is an impressive debut. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Damn Good Guitar Player May 09, 2000
By "Jammin" David Jackson
This guy is coming to a blues fesitval here in Ohio, so I thought I'd buy this album. Quit calling this guy a wanna be. Hell SRV was an Albert King wanna be. If you're lookin for some smokin guitar playing say no more. He's got a good voice, and here's a novel idea, there are actual guitar riffs. New original ones (not the same old blues rehashed). While there is some traditional, this album just blew me away from the first lick. He is definitely up there with Kenny Wayne and J. Lang (probably a better player then both). I was about to give up buying electric blues CDs as they were all very average. This one just kills. I am so pleased to have found a really good guitar player, with good tunes, and tasty chops.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Tasty Texas Blues Dec 26, 2007
By Kurt Harding
"bon vivant"
That industry reviewer was really off base when he dismissed Chris Duarte as a mere Stevie Ray Vaughan wannabe. Sure, Duarte often sounds like Vaughan both vocally and instrumentally but when you are playing in a rather narrowly defined genre, "Texas blues", you are bound to sound like someone else who has done it all before. The criticism might be more apt if Vaughan were still alive when this CD was first released and Duarte was merely aping him. But Vaughan was not around when this came out and Duarte is not playing Vaughan's songs, so the listener should hear this instead as another helping of the tasty Texas blues style as popularized by Vaughan.
Those reading this review and others on this site are unlikely to be looking at Texas Sugar/Strat Magik at all without some familiarity with and affinity for Texas blues. Its hard to describe the style except that you know it when you hear it. I had heard of Duarte for years, but just recently actually heard him for the first time when I chanced to pick this up at a very good price. Now that I have, I am sorry I didn't hear him earlier.
On this his debut CD, Duarte shows that he has mastered not just the style but also the spirit of Texas blues. If you like great guitar work and can separate yourself from any negative feelings vis-a-vis comparisons with SRV then you should enjoy this. Not every song is great, Just Kissed My Baby is actually quite lame and repetitious, but there is a lot to like in just under fifty minutes of music. The standouts are the SRV instrumental tribute Shiloh and a fine cover of Big-Legged Woman but I also have high praise for My Way Down and C-Butt Rock.
Duarte's career may have not taken off immediately but he's well received by most people I know who love the blues. When Robin Trower issued his first solo LP after his departure from Procol Harum, critics howled that he was nothing but a Hendrix ripoff although those who knew him from his Procol Harum days knew differently. Thirty-five years later, Trower is still making great music. The industry hack insinuated that since this CD failed to ignite the music world, Duarte's career would be short. Yet, thirteen years later Duarte is still at it. If you haven't heard Duarte before, buying Texas Sugar/Strat Magik is sure to whet your appetite for more. It sure did whet mine!
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